Since the grant was awarded, there has been a growing body of literature published that is directly applicable to the subject of the grant. Specifically, a prospective, randomized study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in Dec 2013. In that study, the authors did what was proposed in the present study. They found that there was no benefit to meniscectomy in the setting of a degenerative meniscus tear in patients with minimal arthritis of the knee. A very similar study was published a few months before in one of the most important orthopedic journals that focuses on arthroscopy, the American Journal of Sports Medicine. That study was also a prospective randomized study and compared arthroscopic meniscectomy to non-operative treatment for degenerative meniscus tears. The authors of that study also found that arthroscopic meniscectomy for degenerative meniscus tears was of no benefit, this time over non-operative treatment.